Обгоняя время

Successful banker Vladimir Orlov is forced to flee from justice abroad. He quickly realizes that he will not leave alive. Trying to hide from criminal prosecution and reprisals from former partners, the hero finds himself in a small town on the border with Finland. By the will of fate, he assumes the identity of a police major. Now Orlov lives a double life: he understands local incidents as an ordinary investigator and at the same time hides from the metropolitan police and hired killers. He is looking for an opportunity to illegally cross the border, but every day it becomes more and more difficult to leave.

Fall of 1941. Freshly graduated from school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteers for a partisan unit. During an assignment, her comrades are ambushed, and she is captured by the Nazis. She endures hours of grueling interrogations and horrendous torture, but defiantly refuses to divulge any information that would compromise other units’ partisan missions. She doesn’t even tell her captors her real name. Zoya’s sacrifice was not in vain; it ignited fire in the hearts of millions of people and became the symbol of selfless heroism during WWII. She is one of the most celebrated heroes of that time.

The film tells how in the summer of 1942, on the approaches to Stalingrad, Wehrmacht soldiers were blocked by the defenders of Altitude 220. Machine-gun crew of Hanpasha Nuradilov destroyed almost a thousand soldiers and officers of the enemy in an unequal battle, showing an example of selfless courage and heroism. With his sacrifice, Nuradilov stopped the powerful attack of the Germans, thereby giving time to regroup the Soviet troops, and did not allow the enemy to capture the Serafimovichi bridgehead, which gathered the main forces of our army for the main attack on the Wehrmacht group in Stalingrad.

The cycle of events that take place five minutes before the New Year. A participant of the Future Shorts Russia program.